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True Dough

(25,635 posts)
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 09:14 PM Dec 16

Did you see this comment on ReThugs and mass shootings?

If not, you are now. If so, it's worth another read because it's damn true!

Gramps
@GrandpaHarris65

Monday: Mass Shooting.
Tuesday: Mass Shooting.
Wednesday: Mass Shooting.
Thursday: Mass Shooting.
Friday: Mass Shooting.
Saturday: Mass Shooting.
Sunday: Mass Shooting.

Republicans: “We gotta do something about trans people playing sports.”


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Did you see this comment on ReThugs and mass shootings? (Original Post) True Dough Dec 16 OP
yup Skittles Dec 16 #1
Simple solution. Executive Order #9828374 - IT IS ILLEGAL TO REPORT MASS SHOOTINGS erronis Dec 16 #2
Just like Russia denies there are murders there Figarosmom Dec 16 #3
Same thing with the Ukraine War Rhiannon12866 Dec 16 #4
Did you ever see the movie Citizen X? Sector 001 Dec 16 #5
Child 44 Figarosmom Dec 16 #7
I've never seen the movie Child 44 Sector 001 Wednesday #8
I kinda figured that... Figarosmom Wednesday #10
Citizen X is available on HBO/MAX. Ilsa Wednesday #11
Citizen X is such an excellent film! JoseBalow Wednesday #15
Which sick leader said there were "no gays" in his country? louis-t Wednesday #19
Ahmadamnnutjob with Iran. Callie1979 Wednesday #21
The guy from Chechnya Figarosmom Wednesday #22
"You will be SHOT." n/t lastlib Wednesday #12
Makes me think of the law(?) that taking ones own life (suicide) is a crime. erronis Wednesday #13
Kick! red dog 1 Dec 16 #6
Mass shootings. PoindexterOglethorpe Wednesday #9
Kick liberalla Wednesday #14
I wish we could get something like this distributed far and wide dickthegrouch Wednesday #16
Also Republicans GopherGal Wednesday #17
Also Fox News: Initech Wednesday #18
You mean True Dough Wednesday #20
Using Twitter Supports Elon Musk BoycottTwitter Wednesday #23

erronis

(22,487 posts)
2. Simple solution. Executive Order #9828374 - IT IS ILLEGAL TO REPORT MASS SHOOTINGS
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 09:47 PM
Dec 16

UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH!

Rhiannon12866

(249,328 posts)
4. Same thing with the Ukraine War
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 10:48 PM
Dec 16

At the outset, protesters showed up, but they were all immediately sent to jail. Same thing happened on Russian State TV, the one young woman who snuck in a sign about the war and she was also jailed and eventually managed to leave the country.

Sector 001

(157 posts)
5. Did you ever see the movie Citizen X?
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 11:03 PM
Dec 16
Citizen X

The movie was about a real serial killer In Russia.

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.

Figarosmom

(9,643 posts)
7. Child 44
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 11:42 PM
Dec 16

Last edited Wed Dec 17, 2025, 02:36 AM - Edit history (1)

Read Tom Rob Smith's Child 44. Never quite made it through the movie though. It's a story about a MKB agent investigating a child serial killer. Whe the doctrine was there was no such thing as murder. So it was hard for him to investigate while risking himself losing everything for going against doctrine. Real page turner.

Sector 001

(157 posts)
8. I've never seen the movie Child 44
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 12:07 AM
Wednesday

But I read the movie is based on the same serial killer as in Citizen X.

Ilsa

(63,780 posts)
11. Citizen X is available on HBO/MAX.
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 09:42 AM
Wednesday

Rated R, from 1995, 1hr 44m. Stars Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow.

JoseBalow

(9,088 posts)
15. Citizen X is such an excellent film!
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 01:25 PM
Wednesday

Donald Sutherland is the Soviet bureaucrat that tries to help the investigator Stephen Rea. At one point he says:

To ask for more men or computers, for that matter, is to admit to our superiors in Moscow that we're overwhelmed. Which they'll never do. To ask the FBI for help is to admit to the West that we are behind them in both forensic technique and in managing information. Which they would never do. And to publicize the case is to admit that such crimes exist in the Soviet Union. Which is one thing they would rather die than do, to publicly admit that anything is wrong.


And Max von Sydow, as always, is absolutely superb in it.

One of the few hard-to-find movies I still own on DVD, I highly recommend it. You can watch the entire move here or on YouTube for free...

(1:39:10)

erronis

(22,487 posts)
13. Makes me think of the law(?) that taking ones own life (suicide) is a crime.
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 01:13 PM
Wednesday

Last edited Wed Dec 17, 2025, 05:02 PM - Edit history (1)

A world designed by dada.

dickthegrouch

(4,258 posts)
16. I wish we could get something like this distributed far and wide
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 03:38 PM
Wednesday

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217891484

I wrote that after another mass shooting, where a friend of mine was hurt.

GopherGal

(2,780 posts)
17. Also Republicans
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 04:18 PM
Wednesday

"We gotta put the Ten Commandments in every classroom"

Unless they're on a bullet-proof shield that will protect the students, I don't think that'll do the trick.

Initech

(107,245 posts)
18. Also Fox News:
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 04:19 PM
Wednesday

"Here's a guy who hits a ball with a crooked stick into a tiny hole for a living to tell you why Congress shouldn't do anything serious about America's increasing gun problem!".

True Dough

(25,635 posts)
20. You mean
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 06:30 PM
Wednesday

the "shut up and dribble" crowd? And the "Don't take a knee" crowd?

Fuck them!

BoycottTwitter

(26 posts)
23. Using Twitter Supports Elon Musk
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 09:08 PM
Wednesday

I totally agree with the tweet but it's better to avoid linking or embedding Twitter whenever possible because it helps support's Elon Musk's Nazi Bar.

You can use a Tweet viewer like nitter.net, xcancel.com or nitter.poast.org.

https://nitter.net/GrandpaHarris65/status/2000617135064990123

Also I could have swore I saw something similar on Bluesky. Embedding or linking to Bluesky is even better than linking to Twitter through a tweet viewer.

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